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Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys

Vaccine hesitancy is among the major threats to the effectiveness of vaccination programmes. This study aimed to report the trend in response to willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine between two waves of the local epidemic and examine differences among occupations. Two cross-sectional surveys w...

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Autores principales: Wang, Kailu, Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi, Ho, Kin-Fai, Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling, Yau, Peter Sen-Yung, Dong, Dong, Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan, Yeoh, Eng-Kiong
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33477725
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010062
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author Wang, Kailu
Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi
Ho, Kin-Fai
Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling
Yau, Peter Sen-Yung
Dong, Dong
Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan
Yeoh, Eng-Kiong
author_facet Wang, Kailu
Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi
Ho, Kin-Fai
Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling
Yau, Peter Sen-Yung
Dong, Dong
Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan
Yeoh, Eng-Kiong
author_sort Wang, Kailu
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description Vaccine hesitancy is among the major threats to the effectiveness of vaccination programmes. This study aimed to report the trend in response to willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine between two waves of the local epidemic and examine differences among occupations. Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted online during the first wave (February) and third wave (August to September) of the local epidemic in 2020. Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was measured along with personal protection behaviours and occupations. A total of 2047 participants provided valid responses. The willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine among the participants was lower in the third wave (34.8%) than the first wave (44.2%). There were more concerns over vaccine safety in the third wave. Clerical/service/sales workers were less likely to accept the vaccine (adjusted odds ratio: 0.62, 95% confidence interval: 0.43–0.91). A high-level compliance of facemask wearing was found, and more people maintained social distancing and used alcohol hand rub in the third wave. Decreasing willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine may be associated with increasing concerns about vaccine safety and growing compliance of personal protection behaviours. The rush of vaccine development with higher risks of safety issues may jeopardize the public’s trust and lower uptake rates. Education and favourable policy should be provided to the general working population for the vaccination, especially for those who are not professional and are frequently exposed to crowds.
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spelling pubmed-78322912021-01-26 Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys Wang, Kailu Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Ho, Kin-Fai Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling Yau, Peter Sen-Yung Dong, Dong Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan Yeoh, Eng-Kiong Vaccines (Basel) Article Vaccine hesitancy is among the major threats to the effectiveness of vaccination programmes. This study aimed to report the trend in response to willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine between two waves of the local epidemic and examine differences among occupations. Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted online during the first wave (February) and third wave (August to September) of the local epidemic in 2020. Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was measured along with personal protection behaviours and occupations. A total of 2047 participants provided valid responses. The willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine among the participants was lower in the third wave (34.8%) than the first wave (44.2%). There were more concerns over vaccine safety in the third wave. Clerical/service/sales workers were less likely to accept the vaccine (adjusted odds ratio: 0.62, 95% confidence interval: 0.43–0.91). A high-level compliance of facemask wearing was found, and more people maintained social distancing and used alcohol hand rub in the third wave. Decreasing willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine may be associated with increasing concerns about vaccine safety and growing compliance of personal protection behaviours. The rush of vaccine development with higher risks of safety issues may jeopardize the public’s trust and lower uptake rates. Education and favourable policy should be provided to the general working population for the vaccination, especially for those who are not professional and are frequently exposed to crowds. MDPI 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7832291/ /pubmed/33477725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010062 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Kailu
Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi
Ho, Kin-Fai
Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling
Yau, Peter Sen-Yung
Dong, Dong
Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan
Yeoh, Eng-Kiong
Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
title Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
title_full Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
title_fullStr Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
title_full_unstemmed Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
title_short Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
title_sort change of willingness to accept covid-19 vaccine and reasons of vaccine hesitancy of working people at different waves of local epidemic in hong kong, china: repeated cross-sectional surveys
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33477725
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010062
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